mainstream media narratives at this time on al-jazeera. discover a willful would winning programming from around the world. telling them they can't challenge your perception if you were to design a propaganda system you could not build a better plan then first of all for documentary debate and discussion in this country that was once the the wealthiest in the region what went wrong how did we get to this point alex israel. and michele kerry and these are the top stories on al-jazeera the united nations is calling for an end to the targeting of civilians in a rebel held on klav near syria's capital damascus place one hundred ten people have been killed during and tense syrian government and russian bombarding of

eastern gouda which has been under siege since two thousand and six two thousand and thirteen that is local observers believe the attacks are a prelude to a major offensive and a host of reports from beirut and neighboring lebanon. rockets missiles air strikes activists fear the renewed bombardment of the besieged opposition area of eastern could be the beginning of a large scale military operation. it seems russian broke at the gauche ations to bring about a gravel surrender they have so far failed ending a week of relative calm yet again civilians where the victims since the end of december a stepped up military campaign killed more than four hundred people at least one hundred of them were children the fear now is that the numbers will only rise if a wide scale attack begins. the syrian government and its allies are sending military reinforcements to the edges of the rebel enclave just outside the capital damascus program of the media are promising victory and what they say will be a decisive battle it will be the first time they will try to storm. past ground

offensives where we by rebels and people are defiant. we have men who crashed they won't be able to capture one inch of his land. this is what we have been steadfast for seven years they tried many times and he was all kinds of weapons but they weren't able to take anything out. the syrian government and its allies haven't taken ground but over the years they have continuously bombarded residential neighborhoods the syrian government and its allies have been capturing opposition after another. target for some time now. the government captures territory after securing local ceasefire deals that involved opposition fighters and their families evacuated and sent to other rebel controlled areas mainly to the problems of of the in the northwest.

so far the people and rebels of eastern who are refusing to surrender but the reality on the ground is becoming harsher about four hundred thousand people are trapped there the violence is only interesting. it's only going to. result in a child's cry from underneath the rubble he is alive civil defense volunteers say it's not usually the case. but. turkey says it will fight forces loyal to syria's president if they enter a frayne as part of an agreement with the kurdish. turkey launched an offensive last months of kurds out of that area. the white house says u.s. president. background checks on gun purchases in the wake of last week's school shooting in florida activists staged a protest outside the white house demanding action to stop. seventeen students and

staff members were killed by a teenager with an assault rifle in the city parkland. the nation's children the world is failing a newborn babies. born in the world's poorest countries face the worst odds that pakistan is the worst nation in the world for a newborn baby by central african republic. british charity oxfam has apologized to haiti's government after its staff are accused of sexual misconduct as released an internal were poured into allegations that aid workers whose prostitutes turned rebuilding efforts after the two thousand and ten earthquake its former director for haiti admitted to the inquiry that he hired sex workers despite public denials a former football coach has been sentenced to thirty years in prison for abusing eleven young players in the u.k. urban now was found guilty of abusing boys between the ages of eight and fifteen the sixty four year old had been

a talent spotter for manchester city and crew alexandra during the one nine hundred eighty s. those are the headlines the news continues after al-jazeera investigations football's wall of silence. after a dramatic trial a british football coach has been convicted of multiple charges of raping and abusing young players his name is barry bin al. al jazeera investigates why one of the worst scandals to hit the game was ignored for decades we find new evidence on how silence from clubs protected ben l.

and your major this is a covered on. your allies busted. previously unseen police video shows how bin l. groomed potential victims. we reveal new evidence about four have been als players who've died including gary speed who killed himself in twenty eleven. and the tape exclusive to al jazeera have been l. talking about his deadly abuse. and the interim.

in february two thousand and six mark hazeltine drove the short distance from his home to manchester and. a booked in at the radisson told the people at the hotel he was wanting to get away for a few days just so it is had out. those stories words it was at the end of his tether. was that he six from childhood he had one burning ambition. was going to play football and it was going to buy mere a little cottage in a ward. when he was famous. i used to sing him sell a song and that was one of the. cottage in the wood a little man of the window stood saw i was running by knocking out the door.

absolutely football crazy from being a small child. aged twelve the dream was on track playing for barry ben our parents and boys revered by now as a stomachache because he ran feeder teams for the world famous manchester city and el invited mark on a footballing trip to spain. coupler days before they were due to goal i just found out it was only a man going i'm out with all came to go i aged flown to the moon david thought he could have played folk ball on. a went on holiday and came back or told a different bloke. the magna. mot was my best friend. i was best man is where they. were just inseparable really from day one. it was never bully and then obviously he's come

back a fall a day and age got quiet aggressive chased it just stole it changed like a flick of a switch overnight. as he grew older mark turned to drink use drugs and had violent outbursts of temper. did you ever think this something can troubled inside him cost me mind a few times while can quite put my finger on what the problem was i always thought it was because he didn't quite make it as a footballer. joined burnley that a knee injury quickly ended his playing days by two thousand and six personally and professionally he was struggling. always get off work was out him on the phone one and it was march wife. staff went into the room to check the box. and he was sort of on his knees. it hurts from

a serious side. it on himself. for a decade the grief was compounded by not knowing why mark killed himself until november twenty sixth. that day i saw it go across the screen barry been l. is arrested it came right to me had straight away. went away with him. and at something. i just i just. collapsed mold no whole. being just. belief now. i believe not was probably repay shipley appears on.

someone as layer based not now today we're here to moyes don't. it's been eleven years of hell i've not known why mock me it's serious i saw it makes him a closure. and rather not know that but to him about it. for myself. if it didn't happen and people are still friends. so it's about holding vanilla to him to the yes it's a hold in not only pain l. i am angry at these people in the club. i am so angry at ben for letting that go on. well the scams of abuse of footballers x.

racial abuse in football scandal has snow going to develop a big shock to the sport the face of a self-confessed monster former crew player woodward was the first to speak out and the word were brought to dial the biggest secret in football several former players have come forward from an england player paul stewart manchester city in england striker david wash l c is the latest football club to open an investigation is the f.b.i. willing to look this issue in the art twenty years ago documentary maker deborah davies uncovered a horrifying stories of abuse and football there were so many warnings as far as i can tell none of them were followed her. twenty years ago i was a reporter on a film about barry the now a story no one else covered at that time the now was in jail in florida in one thousand nine hundred four he took young ama to teams from britain on tour to america and raped a thirteen year old player. we obtained the court file including the boy's

statement he turned me over told me pakistan. pain is in the backside. now and like it happened. to two or three times. the nationals individual case suggested something much bigger a fundamental failure across football to protect young players that's exactly what's now being exposed. say this is a road i've traveled before but maybe much too early. most victims weren't ready to speak then research now shows men abused as children usually don't reveal it until their forty's. but els hunting ground was the peak district east of manchester. his power sprang from his personal charisma and dazzling football skills. as a young person he was obsessed with football teams bring you along as

a player he was like a magician. but this magnificent seven in particular was a trick when he went right around the body without dropping the ball. i was mesmerised somebody could do this. magnetic effects of the r. r it was always telling you how famous he was going to make it big enough to back out was plenty of money that's how he presented hello my name is barry but out. much of the city's northwest representatives can't. misses a amazing opportunity professional club. in march just to try and reach that goal. so this was a really big day he this was like professional jeems not. just moment moment out with. panels on the simple. team off

in one nine hundred eighty four aged fourteen gary signed a commitment to manchester city big clubs didn't have their own youth sides then instead they're authorized scouts like the now run a committee teams from which they picked the best props be three or four boys that they have a coke would come out. on. no it would be the testing ground see what they could get away with to toss in the how the. which i keep on going into your pants. when i contacted gary cliff twenty years ago he wouldn't speak to me he told only his wife and close family that from age eleven he and jude four years of abuse from indecent assault to attempt to rape. gary also witnessed younger boys being groomed to replace him. is something of

a felt sort of. an older boy should have sat so. simple even after worse nobody spoke about so we kept the secret do you know why he kept the secret anyway you seem to all have been locked into this kind of wall of silence you fail complicit what shift go along. you think you've got a long waltz ties it goes on it goes on and on along in a fair question. it's. been el-haddad open access to city's famous stadium it may read even used the players entrance what's never been revealed before is the bullies were abused inside the ground. of the grounds were built around the grass cutting a wire. off the perch. ex-partners after it.

was trashed our in our tracks. on the pitch. on the man man city. in the original film xenia city fake is admitted to me they'd heard rumors about the now but never investigated their own says showed why football is a whole seemed blind to sexual abuse. he was luther born as a fellow that wasn't right but there was no further. complaints would. be defined. who have never come across you see in sport because he is a sportsman. he's a masculine thing. well football allowed him to stay in because you produce the goods. cheshire police questioned manchester city staff after bin l.

was arrested in america that alan says are described as if they sit and cagey. getting rid of been l. for irregularities but wouldn't elaborate police call them a prominent club who wouldn't want media attention. twenty years old in cities new and he said they wouldn't comment until after the end of the trial and their own internal inquiry on penelles links to the club but the lawyer for many victims is concerned that wayne to address the abuse players suffered as this shows that city do not get it they are still thinking about themselves about their liability about their financial interest it's not about us about survivors back to chose to sail the notion of this is historic impacts on you than a man of things ok well actually no it doesn't we'll trails for quite long periods of substance abuse you can drink you i've pretty much lived with this every single day at the forefront of my mind. if i thought about everything i would

collapse to mental breakdown. the rush of anxiety a sense of worthlessness a half left of a life or a life you've got to lie about something you're happy and you know. this man never told anyone that the now abused him even his closest family didn't understand why he suddenly became a troubled child. over a life of. a feel the aggression coming from a fate of what was like a like a fever. the only way i could deal with that. was to hurt myself punch walls break my heart. give myself a headache because that would take the feel in a way. a wife as always wondered what was wrong with my. the night. you get use of it i was going to happen

. but i'm told. i tried to smother my wife about it over a face. of tried to strangle her. they were i was asleep got no recollection of it. he couldn't tell his wife the source of his nightmares until november twenty sixth when first one then dozens have been l's former players finally break this silence and his picture came on the telly my wife looked up man said what's the matter. i didn't know what to do was the straw. poll you're gonna have horrible exits are fixed by a ups guy at the office got off. unsure about whether to gauge the police he called it a boyhood friend the only person he'd been able to voice what everyone else looked

away as a dark secret. and then all types of abuse the masturbation the oral sex and the burglary all continued for me he was the only person who would have the stuff. and maybe he could help me. one kept silent one spoke out they last saw each other as bullies staying at bin l's house where he to be used both on the same night. yeah i know i don't know if. i'm just really still one of them over. a phone just there's

a reason spoke to one of the ad with a little devil this conversation right now. and it just triggered something off. because i have a going to say anything to anybody and i wasn't i wasn't he was going to go to the grave with me. tony didn't. i'll tell you i still struggle when being asked about so we happened to be. you know we comes away. you know where we used to stay and stuff. yeah. but we thought in a special laws to our soil. and now was a as a as an old mom. you know and what it meant back in the day. i'm for you that this was when we were ten eleven throughout all these and thirty years of age and

you're being hailed i'm told you're going to be a superstar you comply for all these well this is your future and all you do is not julie is china survive as a kid. this was the same pitch way and was first filmed with frank his father frank was convinced abuse in football was a huge issue way beyond the now. said of to the president and he is an exciting dad went into overdrive and just read to everyone he could think of yes absolutely i mean hey we've got lots of local m.p. is very sporting organization and say. when frank died in his mother was about to throw away his file just has been l's latest arrest made headlines in november twenty sixth. my mom rescued it the night before it was going to go into the recycling you know seventy four year old woman was upside down in

a way been rescuing this envelope of documents you know day out late to the f.a. yes absolutely today at the football association said they couldn't know if coaches were at risk because they didn't have legal palace then to check criminal records to be dismissed with such a short letter. it's just it's just completely unacceptable it's all citizens join us in el didn't have a criminal record until he'd been abusing for at least fifteen years that's because no clubs reported their concerns even though players say it seemed an open secret the many in football across northwest england we would know what has been buried boys that's what people used to shelter was. close to an over share your sister called. families ball boy. year old gay battles gay year old sleeping together. but also friends who previously played for the older age groups

and the stories were already out there before we came along you know five years previously. this man also played in one of bin l's youth teams linked to manchester city often staying at the coach's house where play fighting quickly became sexual abuse. of been coerced so much to a certain point but then all those and that became a lobbying and a member all the drone running through politics just even if you know you boys instinctively knew that what was going on was terribly wrong. he was trying to rape me. in one nine hundred eighty five buried in l. joint crew alexandra after manchester city got rid of him for unspecified reasons.

crews manager dario gradi brought him in as a youth coach they'd worked together in the seventy's at wimbledon and chelsea many of the nails players also decamped from city to join him at crewe then dispersed to other clubs taking the rumors with them. they would ask me whether it's true that your kitchen. if it. is you truly want to bury boombox and i'd say yes my experience here who you say this to isn't it to the parents maybe of the boy's parents the coaches at the new team complain for anybody to substantiate. in the close and closed world of football would go back to bury the nalut crew. and unruh cruz no paid but tell me that we've heard of him making allegations about him which you don't why i'm doing is out of bitterness because all these of attorneys tried to promote my football career. version remember it for because you don't go very far in the game. i'm sure the crew of the fucked up security.

what the club did know was that every weekend boy stayed with the now we've seen one of his account sheets he charged crew five pounds per boy a night to stay. twenty years ago manager jerry a grotty confirmed to me he knew boys had often stayed overnight with ben elf they carried on when he when he came here and i have to say that we've never had any reports of any problems. but we've been told that's no true a decade in one thousand nine hundred eight a crew director says a parent from another club approached him. and he said my friend's son was abused by a coach a cruel. and you need to know it now i was stunned. stunned into silence so not often stunned into silence that was eight. ready had

such a lot of innuendo and gossip and rumor and one thing and another and heidi. up to here. hamilton smith says he demanded a special meeting those directors who attended decided against sacking the now instead he says the deputy chairman john bowler told manager gradi no more boys will stay with the now and said well at a kids show. i have kids with me. i haven't had any complaints richard are never had any complaints from but. and diarrheal virtually no i just sat down and. looked and so well is that i mean it and all that and that was it. then l stayed at crewe for another four years the club has never said why he left. in part to an els linked to gary speed who committed suicide in twenty eleven the

speed family have always denied he was a victim but new evidence suggests otherwise. more than a century ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can draw him. but what were the last in your facts of this agreement there is a regional search to sites because it's at those borders were drawn without consulting the people after that with the. psychs pekoe lines in the sand at this time on al-jazeera. i really felt liberated as a journalist loved. going to the truth was that i would love for this job. the story of one of the most successful p.r. campaigns in the us. study after study demonstrated the israeli perspective

american media coverage what part of this can you get through your thick head is hamas a terrorist organization the only thing that you're going to say is what we want to use and if you don't say it when i go what you speak it would be very hard for ordinary americans to know that they're being deceived the occupation of the american mind at this time on al-jazeera. and then joined up and how with the headlines on al-jazeera the u.n. is calling for an end to the targeting of civilians in a rebel held enclave near syria's capital damascus is under ten people have died during the syrian government and russian bombing of. local observers believe the attacks are a prelude to a major offensive on the area which has been under siege by the government forces since twenty thirty. take he says they'll fight forces loyal to syria's president

if they're free as part of an agreement with the kurdish why p.g. turkey launched an offensive last month to push kurds out of the area the white house says u.s. president donald trump is open to supporting improved background checks on gun purchases in the wake of locke's last week's school shooting in florida activists staged a protest outside the white house demanding action to stop future mass shootings seven hundred students and staff members were killed by a teenager with an assault rifle in the city of park and. the united nations children's agency says the world is failing newborn babies a report by unicef says infants born in the world's poorest countries face the worst it ranks pakistan as the worst nation in the world for newborn baby deaths followed by central african republic british charity oxfam has apologized to haiti's government after its staff were cues of sexual misconduct it's released an

internal report into allegations that aid workers used prostitutes during the rebuilding efforts after the twenty ten earthquake its former director for haiti admitted to the inquiry that he hired six workers despite public denials a court in peru is ordered former leader alberto fujimori to stand trial of a mass killings in nine hundred ninety two despite a recent presidential pardon he was freed on health grounds last month after serving less than half of a twenty five year sentence for human rights abuses during his time in office but the court found that the pardon doesn't apply to the new case the seventy nine year old is accused of ordering the torture and murder of six farmers by paramilitary troops a former football coach has been jailed for thirty years for abusing eleven young players in the u.k. been ill was found guilty of abusing boys aged between eight and fifteen he'd been a talent spotter for manchester city and crew alexander that story is coming up

next. thank.

you. all through his career as a football coach arab in el took young teams on tour to spain in america he assigned rooms several boys in each with an l himself sharing one of them. very. often. police interviews from one thousand nine hundred four in el was now coaching an amateur team and a taken them on a summer trip to america. to quote. one boy came home and told his parents in el raped him on that tour after at least fifteen years of rumor but no action arabella's arrested still in florida.

is usually. with an el in an american jail british police dug into his previous activities the crew football club. and. would usually. virus larry. this was after crew director hamilton smith says he warned the club but they didn't stop players staying with canal. digital. they both said they were not abused the police was still concerned or. possibly. the price.

of the water to. shoot it out and it will affect the rest of the wire. the faster the volume on the on charges the only solution. are. where you. are. in one thousand nine hundred five than l. was sentenced to four years in america for rape and indecent assault. a full conviction dozens of players write letters of support even some had been abused by gandy would would he didn't open up to police for three years and steve walters locked in silence for over twenty years both now leading figures in the campaign to protect children in sport. crew manager dario gradi said he received no complaints

despite how milton smith now claiming he alerted grotty you said wouldn't take action tonight and in addition dispatches reported deborah davis investigates the paedophile continue. the film lead while the nel was in jail in america and yet to face charges in britain former crew director hamilton smith vividly remembers watching it and demanding to meet john bola then deputy now chairman. as a georgia member that we had the special meeting about body but nel. and he said no . that's not what happened many strategy try to kill the show cock and bull story. and and here majorly. this is a cover up. busted. and go out. we can't confirm that or establish what crew knew because the club

and groggy didn't reply when we put the allegations to them. after prison in america than al was extradited to stand trial in britain court documents from one thousand nine hundred eight not seen before indicate almost fifty charges against twenty three children but the prosecution let him plead to just half of the crimes against only six boys none of the victims were told the details several like ian actually feel the justice system let them down. i only just found. a week or so ago and i've still not got an explanation from anybody what charges were pressed and which ones were allowed to be laid on file given to me at first i was there and would write in your complaint. that have pretty well. voices all of. it's

a voice they thought they'd never hear again. after serving half a sentence but nell was released from prison in two thousand and four nothing was heard of him until he agreed to speak to a journalist eight years later he didn't know he was being recorded the audio has never been made public until now. but to say he had here if. it was. not of any. internet or compensation after one hundred percent put him back in prison. style songs long. distance himself on. points wins. so i'm not going to. complain and it's an absolute. zero and was

waiting for five years so i saw. that b. twenty thirty forty one hold on i'm. going to continue the mouth off. and no evidence of any book or e. will really because i had four counts of rape charges against him. come on. the last. four comes to hell well for consumers. the perverse way is compulsive to listen to the book it's shocking. shocking though soul no conscience. it was the trial of a mob in the true philosopher. than us can make and see how we failed.

our voice. out of one error in the law. one of the main reasons bad n l's victim states silent sometimes for decades was to protect their parents. i just filled really really guilty for them because they've just based one hundred mil to a paedophile. my father offered to take lists over to these to these children. a father. over such a kid i don't have a can there were. i just couldn't seem to hurt my dogs eyes even for five years later a broach for doubt but it's caused muffet tenuous relations between his book probably the last proper conversation alone he was apologizing to me again. and which. you know i. watch him as a guy and i'm not saying you know me to apologise it was nothing nothing to do with

the who is not your fault. what in the world was. culture change while there is a made out hopefully changed the future of the trial for those. i am i am. running the manchester marathon is an extraordinary public statement from a man who kept silent feel he is. david lean did says because his mother saw the ninety seven dispatches film and confronted him. just meeting anything has happened while i've been in the house. and i said no i asked him is fine and she said she's not sure how to cope to hurt. and i decided then about i wasn't ever going to disclose until my mom passed away. fifteen years later david's mother was terminally ill. i'm going into loss garridge is going

through wardrobes my mom's house i was trying to get everything ready to. to go to the police. trophies from the butlins holiday camp webb in el cage to sit if it gets from the training weekend he spent a bit else house where he was sexually abused all became evidence once his mother died she got through the christmas and then when the january and i went to mass for the police station. after finally displacing the abuse david was hit by a tory demotion. just disintegrated in the car for twenty minutes. and then. realised.

that if. you've told the police which is like people you don't know. but you've gone on to tell love poem which is completely different and never and a million years. tax back to hear all i had and in now everything sort of started to make sad and i can't describe what it was like because than you know it's things like your home safe haven it's show your place a safe day failed invaded. it was just. it was made worse when the prosecution service said they wouldn't challenge bin l. because he already served time for abusing six boys during the same period another charge wasn't justified. david full that decision and one his father

lived to see been l. convicted for the third time in twenty fifteen and jailed for two years for abusing david boy saw and felt a present before he passed. i wanted him to see the justice which sided. the process. towards the end of the marathon david had a shocking encounter with a friend of one of bin l's victims so often i couldn't imagine what was the way to stop any of us until enough miles was all of us may not. be killed by i am not all of us all. of us we couldn't find the runner to verify their story but the fact that abuse can lead

to suicide is something we've heard time and again. another of the nels players was recently diagnosed with a kind of permanent mental damage suffered by hostages and torture victims and raped repeatedly for five years as a child it was one of the cases been l. served time for. as far as this trying to note. the periods. ages two to eight seven where the con of that that to abuse took place. to diffuse the ever present turmoil. his head he maps it out on paper the ninety eight conviction. but there's no support mechanisms in place. so the base is left to rot. for the rest of your life sink or swim. overwhelming guilt. shame.

anger. culminated in two thousand and two. a mental breakdown and in fact low self esteem are noir sentient span ational panic attacks sleepwalking trust issues it's never straight forward trough the trough. certain points and signs of the deep troughs. twice he's trying to kill himself the last time after a normal night out with friends member walking but. in kind of. a strange kind of for house kind of mentality so no. no thoughts about. what damage potentially caused by doing was going to. go to the garbage. can find

a rope. walker you. know i was unaware. why wasn't it because it's not. in the trial has just ended he gave emotional testimony on the impact of the abuse he said he heard four of been ells players who died but didn't know the details our investigation has traced those deaths. in twenty sixteen marco installed police in el had abused him as a child before he could give a formal statement he died from long term problems with alcohol. stephen prince died from a drug overdose in one thousand nine hundred one aged twenty. four mittee mates a crew say benelli accused him of stealing money his tactic against boys he tried to escape his advances. as we've already reported

mark hazeltine killed himself and five years later so did another of those teammates gary speed. where in the thing of all. the. effort they. were talking and using columnist down. a premiership legend a wales international and then manager gary speed's death in twenty eleven stunned the footballing world. the ninety seven film named him as one of the star players banal discovered not one of his. victims but after gary speed's death that led to speculation about why he killed himself the link made headlines again when he was named in court as one of the four players who've died. so my situation. again especially. speaking just after gary speed's inquest benelli used the word

special horribly familiar to the boys he abused i saw gary coleman go in various life were he was also different he was one showed rick if he was one that was going on different hold ation different tours that scene apart emerging with fire with all the young people. if you ask me i would say that jerry will have suffered abuse at the hands of barry i assure you there would be a link to the abuse in his teenage years to suicide the what of the factors involved which will never know but i think that will of a part played really to. the speed family have always said gary was not abused that's what he told police in the ninety's but his father roger has also said publicly life would be easier if they knew why gary killed himself. we've spoken to more than one witness who says there was abuse and that may be a factor because this is so sensitive an actor is voicing one man's words.

if they're unable to see reason i could provide some clarity and i could give them the closure they need to get on with the rest of their lives because i was there i was a witness. on a few occasions gary was in the same breath. barry would abuse one of course then turn over and then abuse you know you are absolutely certain that gary speed was abused by been l. condor person while my nine point nine percent because you literally both in the bed at the same time. you don't actually were. in this wise but basically the same process is happening to the older person so anyone who stayed regularly what were the chances that they were being abused by the now go preacher and forewards seems you could basically go along the line and say yes yes yes yes yes. to me i'm

from them to them i've noticed. that's the closest banality has ever come to expressing remorse. but what about the football authorities how much have they acknowledged their failure to protect players. in a letter the american prosecutor alerted charles hughes the football association to be an els conviction in florida their response nothing they never replied. hello and every day was from the dispatches two years later i tried to get an answer from the same man which mr hughes we wanted to ask about if it is asked for mention sexualise children. instead the f.a.a. said the program ignored the facts and claimed child protection was a top priority. four years later in two thousand and one x. crew director hamilton smith met the f.a.a.

to clarify why they'd never investigated than l. a wanted the f.a.a. to tell me why their systems. that they hadn't place had failed some of these are what was their intention to do about what was a fit their brief reply the football association has investigated the issues and is satisfied there is no case to answer investigated. investigated for as little argot for confront and the f.a. asking for answers up think they just didn't want to nel. by two thousand and one the f.a.a. was moving forward under chief executive adam cruciate they produced guidelines to prevent all forms of abuse they commissioned a respected academic celia breckenridge to monitor how well the guidelines were working over the next five years she kept a diary january two thousand and two i began elated then got depressed and

frustrated then became quite angry and upset about the many and various delays. somewhat clubs cooperated but not all. one official threw back the research as id card across the table after another refused to return numerous telephone calls and even pretended to be someone else to avoid being interviewed november two thousand and two bang adam cruise he resigned from the f.a.a. last week his departure could signal bad news for the project too soon to say. have fears were justified the f.a.a. scrapped the study citing budget cuts june two thousand and three the whole business has drained me and left me feeling even more cynical about their stated intentions to develop welfare initiatives. now the f.a.a. has been forced to deal with its own past institutionally organizations in the old used to protect themselves by keeping quiet and closing ranks thus completely on

the inappropriate and unacceptable to go with war without an independent inquiry by concern is that this is just going to be a smokescreen is not going to result in anything which is worthwhile and the question mark still remains how they're going to sanction themselves potentially for their own plane and. the f.a.a. have said they're inquiry report until at least easter and they won't comment before that. montas in iraq say this isn't about football this is about a piece of paper they're all or they need to be held. council of. the senate committee realizes that it was petition production line of talent which was announcing three for both good financially because it plays to be passed on to go clubs for it always about support it i think is disgusting. how can you possibly poults. the cam welfare of children to one side for bringing

a possible into the game and that's just them purely about creating money. there has to be as i don't. scratch it it's a copy and as long as there is a calming down all would be. to fall off. i think it's disgusting i think this week it. is full. of files or a song up for an umbrella now. we are left to try and comfort one little to all your friends off to. decide his older brother into. his mates signed to share that tributes to a man one of so many failed by the game he loved may be your man patched up you're talking to us now you fall for the biggest game as we do the same. you'll mind will

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hello the water is draining away from baghdad for the wrestler valentine chilly as the cloud though still swirling disappears just across the rainy and border so we're left with sunshine for the time being and the forecast temperature is relatively high eighteen in beirut for example about fifteen in jerusalem and what ramos gathering on the iranian border has also disappeared eastwards fold in the past and the sun should be out here to even the strong winds that have lifted the desert sand in the rock salt iraq in kuwait and beyond the breeze is slowly dropping as well and we are as much as a lamb was wet anyway however the picture on wednesday is a bit different the clouds formed again the breezes change directions a southerly twenty two in kuwait twenty one in baghdad and we've got rain gathering again the southeast in turkey but not i think for jordan off of syria or indeed from most of egypt but it's dropped down see what the wind has done so far it did

pick up the dust and of course start to drop the temp is a little bit in bahrain but the house twenty six is to a least where average should be or slightly higher and the wind swings around and you've got now just feels a breeze from the empty quarter running up through western society he even temps are high in mecca but making the skies rather orange. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you al-jazeera. the scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the

situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. the u.n. calls for an immediate end to the targeting of civilians in syria as more people are killed in rebel held eastern. i'm jane.